Folders Not Allowed

You are not allowed to create folders with following names in windows:

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,

LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

we cannot create folder with these names as

Name Function

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CON Keyboard and display

PRN System list device, usually a parallel port

AUX Auxiliary device, usually a serial port

CLOCK$ System real-time clock

NUL Bit-bucket device

A:-Z: Drive letters

COM1 First serial communications port

COM2 Second serial communications port

COM3 Third serial communications port

COM4 Fourth serial communications port

LPT1 First parallel printer port

LPT2 Second parallel printer port

LPT3 Third parallel printer port these are reserved

Note: Infact if u create a notepad file and give it name as "con" it will give u msg box...try it now.